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Funeral Customs: Chapter III: Preparation For Burial, Cof...

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IN order to follow the various burial customs as clearly as possible, we will consider them in their natural sequence. Death has taken place, with or without such a supernatural warning as we have noted in a previous chapter, and precautions have been taken (we will hope) to ascertain that what was once a human being is now a "lifeless corpse"--an expression that we may use without tautology. Whilst the word "corpse" is now accepted as denoting a dead body, it was at one time as often used in…

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